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second follow-up to OP: Today (2026 August 29), I went to Porsche Norwell, where my favorite Porsche sales person (Matthew Barrett) let me take out two new Cayenne electrics for test drives: a Turbo and a base 4. I'm just going to add stuff to my previous two posts above, not repeat stuff...

that green Turismo next to your Cayenne looks amazing...

My personal must-have add-on options are simple: 14-way seats; ventilated front seats; heated windshield; some exterior color besides black or white; compass/clock on dashboard. My personal "subtraction" option: 19-inch wheels for best range. My personal "no-change" option for practicality...

Follow-up to OP: Today (2026 August 24), I went to Porsche Westwood (south suburban Boston) and test-drove a Cayenne 4 (as I refer to it), after having driving a Cayenne 4S at Porsche Burlington a couple of weeks back. Here are some notes from today's test-drive, and from sitting in the car for...

I'm still not understanding why anybody would wanna buy a Porsche and have it steer for you... (let alone why anybody would trust a car's computer to steer for you, given the complexity of the roads throughout the world today, with all of their inherent problems)

nope, I've never used launch control in any Porsche; I have no interest in that... I don't have a base (RWD) Taycan... I have an AWD Taycan 4... I used the accelerator pedal on the Cayenne S the same way that I do in my Taycan 4; perhaps there's a different setting for the pedal weight or...

well, I have the Taycan 4, not the 4S... And the Taycan 4 is noticeably quicker off the line and also accelerating while at speed than the Cayenne 4S was that I drove today... And the Macan 4 was really lethargic in a way that shocked me...

Today (2026 July 25) I got a heads up that Cayenne Electrics have been showing up this week in dealerships here in New England. I went to Porsche Burlington to sit in a showroom Turbo for a while and got a quick test drive in a Cayenne 4S (they had sold their only Cayenne base already, which is...

I've seen the new "pale blue metallic" in person at a dealership; it was really disappointing to me... I was hoping that it would be closer to "Montego Blue" (past Cayenne) or "Yachting Blue" (past Panamera) -- but it's not nearly as nice.

My sources say that you are wrong about your first claim. A Taycan that I was just considering buying has a line on the official Porsche build sheet listed as "ZTR", which the dealership told me was for any tariff imposed by Trump (in this case, it was $0).

I wish that the Cayenne Electric would come standard with steel suspension, with air suspension optional (as is the case in the US with the ICE Cayenne). As for the 25% tariffs, it's very arbitrary and unclear how that would go forward considering that all of the 2025 tariffs imposed by Trump...

Well, a 2025 Taycan 4 CT that I was considering buying arrived in the US late last year, and it had zero tariffs imposed on it according to the dealership. So it isn't clear when/how these tariffs will be implemented (and if they're legal -- with the courts overturning Trump's tariffs of last...

My main focus on the cockpit is from the driver perspective -- not what materials are made of but rather how functional the cockpit is (screens, controls, storage space) to help the driving experience. From that perspective, I found that my special-ordered Macan 4 was quite a bit better than my...

Very interesting. Things I like: (1) regular door handles; (2) retention of physical switches for fan and temperture (climate); (3) retention of normal key fob, steering-wheel and door controls, analog clock, basic instrument-panel design; (4) electrochromic glass in the roof (but I hope it...

I've been saying for years that PHEVs will likely pick up a lot this decade before BEVs go "mainstream". I've been waiting for the better part of a decade for Porsche to come out with a Macan E-Hybrid; I'd buy that over a Macan BEV now, if it were available, because I do numerous cross-country...